World Radiocommunication Seminar 2016
Mohan DAS Maritime Service Publications BR/TSD International Telecommunication Union • General
• List of Coast Stations and Special Service Stations (List IV)
• List of Ship Stations and Maritime Mobile Service Identity Assignments (List V)
• Manual for Use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services
• Maritime mobile Access and Retrieval System (MARS)
• ITU Service Publications (maritime) and MARS - Who are the users?
• ITU Service Publications and MARS – Statistics
• Conclusion • International shipping transports about 90 per cent of global trade to people and communities all over the world;
• Maritime mobile communications are key to the success of this industry because it (among others):
• Provides maritime safety information, ship position reporting and weather forecasts, as well as other information that can be passed to ships at sea;
• Provides a wide range of communications technologies in order to support safe navigation, efficient operations and commercial aspects (commerce and public correspondence);
• Provides information to assist Search and Rescue authorities, on a vessel in trouble, thus potentially avoiding the loss of the ship and saving lives. List IV List V Maritime Manual List of Coast Stations and List of Ship Stations and Manual for use by the Maritime Special Service Stations Maritime Mobile Service Identity Mobile and Maritime Mobile- (RR 20.7) Assignments Satellite Services (RR 20.8) (RR 20.14)
Maritime mobile Access and Retrieval System (RR 20.14A) Ship station (RR 1.77): A ship station is a mobile station in the maritime mobile service located on board a vessel which is not permanently moored, other than a survival craft station.
Coast station (RR 1.75): A land station in the maritime mobile service. Contains useful operational information, such as the name of coast (land) station, MMSI and/ or call sign, geographical coordinates, contact information, transmitting and receiving frequencies/channel numbers, hours of service and watch-keeping periods, etc. of:
Coast stations transmitting Maritime Safety information; medical advice; Meteorological bulletins; Radio time signals; notice to navigators RCC(s) Rescue coordination centers (MRCC, RCC, MRSC, JRCC) VTS - Vessel traffic service Pilot stations Port stations (port operations service) Coast earth stations NAVAREA coordinators (provide detailed meteo and navigational info in oceans) Search and rescue (SAR) Agency addresses and contact information Coast stations participating in NAVTEX (Navigational and Safety messaging) Provides details of identification and characteristics of AIS Aids to navigation This List is prepared and issued, once every two years, by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in accordance with provision No. 20.7 of the Radio Regulations (RR) The carriage requirements of this List on board ships (vessels), are stipulated in Appendix 16 to the RR
Provides information that is considered useful for: ships at sea to contact coast stations and/or
authorities involved in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations including the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) Ship shore Provides detailed operational information on the vessel, such as: ship name, MMSI and/ or call sign, flag state of the vessel, type of vessel, national or IMO registration number, gross tonnage and radio communication equipment on board. Provides details of the identification (i.e. MMSI) and maritime radio equipment on board the aircraft involved in Search and Rescue (SAR). Provides contact information, such as the name(s)and address(es) of the accounting authority(ies) (AAICs) with their respective identification codes. Provides contact information of Administrations/Geographical areas, that have notified ship station data for registration in the ITU maritime database. Updates notified are made available via the BR MARS webpage on a daily basis. http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/terrestrial/mars/Pages/MARS.aspx This List is prepared and issued, ever year, by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in accordance with provision No. 20.8 of the Radio Regulations (RR) The carriage requirements of this List on board ships (vessels) is mandatory, as stipulated in Appendix 16 to the RR
Provides information that is considered useful to:
contact individual ships at sea;
assist maritime Search And Rescue (SAR) authorities in organizing their operations in the event that a ship is in a distress situation;
assist national administrations in identifying vessels operating in their waters.
This is a reference publication that has been designed to be of use to operators in the maritime mobile and maritime mobile- satellite services
The carriage requirements of this List on board ships (vessels), are stipulated in Appendix 16 to the RR
It provides the maritime community with a compilation of treaty, regulatory, technical, operational and other ITU texts relevant to the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite services
It contains all pertinent extracts from the ITU Constitution and Convention, Radio Regulations, Telegraph and Telephone Regulations and associated ITU-T and ITU-R Recommendations, on the maritime mobile and maritime mobile satellite services.
It is used as a part of the training provided to administrations concerning the operational and regulatory procedures for distress communications in the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS), in compliance with the ITU Radio Regulations. http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/terrestrial/mars/Pages/default.aspx
Ship stations
Search and Rescue Coast stations (SAR) aircraft MARS Contact AIS Aids to information Navigation (AtoNs) Accounting Authorities (AAIC)
Contact information of notifying Administrations
Useful information for Search and Rescue authorities (Password is required) Rescue Coordination Centers & Search and Rescue Units
Other Administration Agencies • Coast stations for commercial radio-traffic • Port operations & Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) • Offices in-charge of licensing & notification of ship, coast stations and other maritime stations • Border monitoring – customs, Fisheries monitoring, Inspection and control of shipping
Maritime community • Shipping companies and Agencies • Accounting Authorities (AAICs) • Maritime Universities • 744 000 vessels equipped with ship stations • Data received from 191 on board administrations / 554 082 stations notified geographical areas with an MMSI • 1600 AIS Aids to 32 000 stations notified with Navigation (AtoNs) one or more Inmarsat numbers • Contact information of • 2 090 coast radio over 800 accounting stations authorities
Yachts Ice breaker Passenger Cargo
Gas carrier Car ferry Passenger ferry Rescue coordination centers (MRCC, RCC, MRSC, JRCC); Watch-keeping using digital selective calling techniques
Transmitting Maritime Safety information; medical advice; Meteorological bulletins; Radio time COAST STATION signals; notice to navigators
Port station; Pilot station; VTS station
Public correspondence service
Coast earth stations
Automatic identification System Radio Regulations Administrations shall take all appropriate provision 20.16 measures to notify the Radiocommunication Bureau immediately of any changes in the operational information contained in List IV (Coast stations) and List V (Ship stations), in view of the importance of this information, particularly with regard to safety.
In the case of the data published in List V, which is also made available online through MARS, administrations shall communicate those changes at least once a month.
In the case of other publications, administrations shall communicate the changes in the information contained in them as soon as possible. Notified information has in the Provide ship and shore-based past and will in the future information that facilitates assist in saving lives at sea communications for global shipping